Category Archives: Adhesive

One Year Without Things I’d Rather Not Like

I had an idea for a New Year’s Resolution. This idea came while I was eating one of my favorite Ben & Jerry’s ice creams, Phish Food. It had been half a year since my last B&J fix (a longer-than-customary interval for me, also being a product of Vermont) and I found it less satisfying [...]

Voted #1 Vodka of 2033

What a clever way to get free advertising in places they could not otherwise go unspammily. After I made this portrait they gave me an HTML snippet to embed and I totally fell for it:

Meet My Future You - Find Your Own Future You

Remind me about this in 2033.

Switching to Dvorak on a MacBook Pro

This is my first article typed on a Dvorak keyboard. I just finished moving the keycaps around on my MacBook Pro and I haven’t yet had occasion to use every letter in a sentence. (Q and Z were the holdouts.) My favorite keys are B and apostrophe.
The preceding paragraph was written in eight minutes.

Heavenly Fire: Are You Covered?

This is just a quick survey. Please respond in the comments if you are a homeowner.
Does your home insurance policy cover loss or damage caused by a meteorite?

Buying my first house

Three weeks ago today, I got another one of those “Stop renting! Buy a house!” brochures in my apartment mailbox. I had already put in my 60-day moveout notice with the apartment complex and I had to be out by the end of the month. Looking for an apartment made my skin crawl. I knew [...]